Kilchoman 100% Islay 2nd Edition

Kilchoman Red Wine Matured

This special edition from Kilchoman has matured on red wine casks from the Douro region in Portugal, best known for its port wines. It is the first time that Kilchoman used this type of cask for maturation. The spirit was put to sleep in July 2012, so this single malt is 5 years old. It was cut to 50%, which is a good thing (not being any lower, I...

Score 86/100

Kilchoman Machir Bay 2012

Kilchoman Machir Bay 2012 is just a beautiful drinking Whisky. As you may already be aware this is a very young whisky being a vatting of 3,4 and 5 year old bourban barrels which are then finished for 8 weeks in oloroso sherry barrels. However as many will attest to age in this case means very little and is a great example of why drinking whisky...

Score 89/100

Kilchoman That Boutique-y Whisky Company Kilchoman Batch 1

Loving the Boutiquey Whisky Company so far, I've got a few more whiskies to choose for import when I see in my sample set the Kilchoman. Oooooooh yaaah Baby! I'm a big fan of the newest Islay distillery. The whiskies are young, but delicious and full of peat. So when I see this sample, to say that I'm excited, well it's an understatement. I can't...

Score 87/100

Kilchoman Single Bourbon Cask 11 Year Old

The subject of this review is a whisky most of you will never taste. It's a private bottling from a single cask that I got from a friend. Ergo, writing this review, and reading it, is a somewhat Sisyphean undertaking. I've often been critical of other writers for focusing on unfindable or unobtainable bottles, and yet here I am doing the same...

Score 91/100